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undation started by the late President George H.W. Bush’s son, Neil Bush, bearing his name is being bankrolled by a firm linked to China’s communist government, known officially as the Communist Party of China. A report by Axios revealed the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations, chaired and founded by Neil Bush, is raking in a $5 million grant from 2019 to 2023 from the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), which has ties to China’s communist government. Axios reported: Tax filings covering May through December of 2019 show the Bush China Foundation brought in a total of under $1.2...

There are those who propose the possibility that “the lie” or “strong delusion” that will come upon people, who find themselves left behind after the Rapture of the Church, could be that they will be told, and believe totally, that we who were Raptured were taken by aliens in UFOs to another planet. And it may very well be true that this is the strong delusion. However, it recently occurred to me that there is another possibility. While reading an article about some of the ingredients in what some refer to as ‘the jab,’ it seems the cocktail includes something...

A new social media study finds that LeBron James is the most hated player in the NBA by a fairly significant margin. According to the social media use survey by Sports Insider using trends software with direct access to geotagged Twitter data, the study tracked negative mentions of NBA players on Twitter.

Romanian real estate tycoon Gabriel Popoviciu was convicted in his home country in 2016 of bribery He bribed a university official to buy a 550-acre plot of government-owned land for a drastically reduced price Popoviciu hired Hunter Biden that year as part of an influence campaign to persuade anti-corruption prosecutors to cut a deal or drop the case DailyMail.com can now reveal the extensive propaganda and persuasion campaign planned for the Romanian criminal Hunter brought in political heavyweight Louis Freeh, the former director of the FBI, to use his US law enforcement contacts for Popoviciu's advantage Hunter's involvement included meeting...

What exactly are the qualifications to host a show on CNN? The most obvious seems to be an astonishing lack of professional shame — and I’m not even talking about the circus act Chris Cuomo’s been doing for the past year. Reliable Sources is the most ironically named show in all of cable news, given that the guest roster regularly includes Dan Rather. On this Sunday’s episode, host Brian Stelter partook in a highly embarrassing act of professional self-debasement, in a segment in which he offered schoolgirl giggles and petty star-gazing over White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Stelter acted...

Leaders of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) will vote in September on a declaration to call for an end of US aid to Israel. The resolution will also ask its members to vote in favor of “the international campaign for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against apartheid in Israel.” UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz sent a motion form to members that stated: I move that UTLA denounce the recent bombings in The West Bank and Gaza by the Israeli resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilian people, mostly women and children. Palestinians have the right to self-determination free of violence and...

(...) Mr. Humphreys tells us that the Trudeau government has put a 20-year seal on the deliberations that led to Canada’s “mandatory hotel rules.” (...) The rules are known. However, to hear of the thinking that went behind them, to have citations from the cluster of high-powered brains around the cabinet table that gave them birth — this is a threat to Canada’s national security for the next 20 years. (...)

OCALA, FLORIDA: A Florida woman was arrested for "acting out of control" at an Outback Steak House, and a Mojo Grill near Silver Springs, after she was found naked at the eateries, erratically throwing out alcohol bottles. Identified as 53-year-old Tina Kindred, the woman has since been charged with aggravated battery on law enforcement and felony criminal mischief after she flung wine bottles at a responding officer at the second eatery. The incident went down after the Ocala Police Department got a call from Mojo Grill on Silver Springs Blvd, Florida, reporting a naked woman “acting out of control", topless...

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Monday on ABC’s “The View” that former President Donald Trump looked like he “pooped” his pants during a speech to the North Carolina Republican Party on Saturday. Co-host Meghan McCain said, “Ex-presidents have to present themselves in a way they’ll be taken seriously. Otherwise, you can look like a crazy, ex-mad-king. He’s been like a wedding singer at Mar-a-Lago, and he just looks really disheveled. And he doesn’t look good. I mean, I’m not one of these people who, like, a Jim Acosta where I’m always dunking on him, but this is not how —...

Dr. Anthony Fauci avoided questions on his emails and growing demands for him to be fired as he joined Jill Biden for an interview on Live! with Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest on Monday morning. The pair were instead asked when they have diners with their families and discussed Jill's recent birthday trip to Delaware, a day after protesters greeted them at a vaccine center in Harlem and called for the embattled White House medical adviser to be axed. Fauci got only a few basic questions about vaccines for children and if the US public need booster shots. But he...

Secretary of State Tony Blinken declined Monday to confirm that the U.S. recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, when asked directly by Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) about the issue at the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Israel captured the area in the Six Day War in 1967, after the Syrian military had used it to shell Israeli civilians in the Galilee. Israel was prepared to give most of it back to Syria in peace talks in the 1990s, but was rejected by the regime. The rise of the so-called “Islamic State,” or ISIS, a decade ago, and the subsequent intervention...

“Carlos Danger” needs some cash — and he’s only got one thing to sell. Anthony Weiner is considering a new career in “political collectibles” — starting with the infamous crotch shot that cost him his seat in Congress. The several-times disgraced ex-pol said that he’s stepping down as CEO of a Brooklyn countertop company — a job first revealed by The Post — and may instead start selling nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, of various lowlights from his serial-sexting addiction. Weiner told the New York Times that the digital offerings could include the lewd photo he accidentally tweeted in 2011, a...

On behalf of the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Office, we are honored to extend this invitation to you to attend the Florida Supervisors of Elections (FSE) 2021 Annual Summer Conference at the beautiful Marriott Tampa Water Street, Tampa, Florida. Registration deadline is Friday, May 14, 2021. • Tentative Agenda (a more detailed agenda will be forthcoming as soon as it is available).

Tech giant Apple has paid millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit with a student after repair techs working for its partner company Pegatron leaked explicit photographs and videos from her iPhone that was sent in to be repaired. In 2016, a student in Oregon sent her iPhone to Apple to be repaired. The device was sent to a repair facility in Sacramento, California, where technicians working for Apple partner Pegatron examined the device. The two technicians then reportedly posted “10 photos of her in various stages of undress and a sex video” to the woman’s Facebook account, to make...

Actress Ellie Kemper is apologizing for her involvement in a debutante ball as a teenager that has come under recent criticism for the organization's controversial history. Kemper was crowned the "Queen of Love and Beauty" at the Veiled Prophet Ball in 1999. The organization is based in Missouri and was founded in 1878 by former Confederate officers. Kemper addressed the controversy in an Instagram post on Monday. "When I was 19 years old, I decided to participate in a debutante ball in my hometown," she began. "The century-old organization that hosted the debutante ball had an unquestionably racist, sexist and...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (Vaccination rate slow but stable, just below goal pace, for 70% of adults to have at least a first shot by the 4th of July - New Cases are very low) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 371,520,735 (21,401,000 J&J) Administered: 302,851,917 (11,194,685 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 171,310,738 Fully Vaccinated: 139,748,661

A fear of great whites? Shark center aims to show fact vs. fiction Jason SavioCape Cod Times There’s an 18-foot shark hanging in the air, waiting to greet you at the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Shark Center in Chatham the next time you visit. “Curly” is a life-sized replica of the largest recorded white shark tagged off Cape Cod. It’s one of many new features added to the Shark Center during a “pretty big renovation” that took place in winter 2020, says center manager Heather Ware. The center is an arm of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy, which has a...

New research has shown that if people achieve and maintain substantial weight loss to manage their type 2 diabetes, many can also effectively control their high blood pressure and stop or cut down on their anti-hypertensive medication. A weight management program…has proved effective at lowering blood pressure and reducing the need for anti-hypertensive medications, as well as bringing remission of type 2 diabetes. The programme involves an initial 12 weeks on a nutritionally complete formula diet (low calorie soups and shakes) which will induce weight loss of over 15 kg if followed fully. Diabetes and blood pressure drugs were stopped...

A 21-year-old Amazon driver was arrested in Castro Valley, California, charged with attacking a 67-year-old woman during a dispute, reportedly about “white privilege.” The Amazon delivery driver, Itzel Ramirez, unleashed an onslaught of punches to the back of the victim’s head and face after an argument. “I believe the Amazon driver said something about ‘your white privilege,’ and my tenant said, ‘You don’t need to be a bitch about it,’ turned around and walked away,” said apartment complex owner Doug Smith . The landlord added the victim was too shaken up to talk to the media about the incident, which...

It still looks like we are nowhere near the end of the ongoing global semi chip shortage. Even worse, more manufacturers are confirming that the shortage could last “for at least another year”, catalyzed by sharp post-pandemic demand for automobiles and electronics. Flex, the world’s third-biggest electronics contract manufacturer, offered up the “gloomiest” forecast for the crisis yet to FT this week. The company has more than 100 sites in 30 countries and works with major names like Dyson and HP. Lynn Torrel, Flex’s chief procurement and supply chain officer, told FT: “With such strong demand, the expectation is mid...